Jana Bennett is moving from her job as BBC Vision director to BBC Worldwide, with responsibilities including the global rollout of the international subscription version of the iPlayer. Bennett will join BBC Worldwide in February as president, worldwide networks and global iPlayer. The BBC is seeking to build on the popularity of its iPlayer by […]
Video search-engine operator blinkx is hoping it will be available on UK IPTV platform YouView when it launches in 2011, and has initiated discussions to that end. “We know the YouView team very well and we are involved in the various processes they currently have running with the tech teams,” blinkx founder and chief executive […]
International market research firm Parks Associates predicts three million US broadband households plan to purchase an Internet-connected TV during the 2010 Christmas shopping season, further eroding consumer need for brick-and-mortar video sources. Nearly 25 per cent of US broadband households already own at least one connected TV device, and one-fourth of these households have watched […]
Internet backbone provider Level 3 Communications says Comcast is demanding a recurring fee for transmitting internet movies and “other content” to Comcast customers, accusing the cableco of violating the FCC’s “net neutrality” principles. Comcast says Level 3 is misrepresenting the negotiations between the two companies. “Comcast is effectively putting up a toll booth at the […]
An annual study of consumer video consumption habits and platforms conducted by Frank N. Magid Associates has revealed that despite the increased use of alternative video viewing platforms (like VOD set-top boxes, instant streaming, and mobile apps), the vast majority of consumers intend to continue to maintain their traditional subscriptions with cable, satellite, and telco […]
Viacom had joined all the US networks and many other content providers in blocking Google TV. Viewers trying to access MTV, Nickelodeon and other Viacom brands will now get a ‘content unavailable’ message. The networks fear Google will encourage migration to online and shift viewers to an increasingly on demand behaviour pattern that will damage […]
China’s web TV market in 2009 had over 2 million web TV set shipments and about 1/4 million web TV STB shipments. The fast development of the web TV market is driven by competition between the giant domestic TV vendors and the low incremental cost for web TV functionality, helping drive wider user acceptance. As […]
Kantar Media has published highlights from its futurePROOF study on the ownership and use of digital media in Britain. The research suggests that connected TV will have a big impact on British digital behaviour in 2011, with the launch of YouView. Awareness of IP television has not yet reached the mainstream with only 42 per […]
Adam Crozier has said that the broadcaster must invest in content and technology to capitalise on the “second digital switchover” of web and TV convergence. Speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference the ITV CEO said that the emergence of services such as Google TV and Apple TV was already causing problems for traditional digital TV […]
Modern Times Group (MTG) has entered into a strategic cooperation with LG Electronics. Viasat is making its Viasat OnDemand Internet pay-TV services available directly on all LG TV sets in the Nordic region enabled with NetCast functionality effective immediately. The OTT solution is available to customers with Viasat OnDemand accounts by simply connecting the TV […]